Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Harrington, Paul F. 1931
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 22 Oct 1931

Was Veteran of World War and Popular
Death Takes Paul Harrington at Age 31.  Funeral Services Friday Morning.

Paul F. Harrington, 31, died at his home, 628 Jones street, at 6:45 Wednesday
evening following an illness which began last Thursday and which showed critical
symptoms from the first.  Several months ago Mr. Harrington suffered a severe
illness from lung infection which it was feared at the time would prove fatal
but he seemed to recover and was able to resume his work at the Shell oil
station near the Ionia theater, where he was employed at the time he was fatally
stricken.

Inflammation of the brain was given as the cause of his death and private
services be held at the home Friday morning at 10 o’clock, with interment in
Highland Park cemetery.

Mr. Harrington was born in Sherman City.  When a small boy his father died and
at the age of 11 his mother died.  He grew to manhood in the vicinity of Six
Lakes and Belding.  At the age of 16 he enlisted in the war his service papers
being made out in Grand Rapids.  His enlistment was about the same time as that
of his brother, Elmer, and the boys had thought that they could go through the
war together.  Paul, however, was immediately placed in the field hospital unit
of the 132nd division being one of the first of the soldiers to go across and
one of the last to return home., and never saw his brother during the entire
period of the war.  It fell to his lot to give first aid to the wounded soldiers
to many of whom he administered or helped to administer, medications that
resulted in saving their lives.

While he gloried in the work that he had been able to perform, it was never in a
boastful manner that he spoke of it.  Of a mechanical mind, shortly after he
returned to Ionia county he took a course at the Rahes? automobile school,
Kansas City, Kas., preferring this to the profession into which he had gained a
great insight during his war experiences.

Upon finishing the course he came to Ionia, and was engaged by the Welder
garage.  Later he acted as chauffaur for T.B. Preston and then for Mrs. Fred W.
Green.

He was employed for two years and had also worked at the Hayes Body corporation
plant.  One of his former employers said of him Thursday afternoon, “There were
none better than Paul Harrington.  Honest, faithful to duty, and well liked.”

He is survived by his widow; a son, Phillp, four years of age; two brothers,
Esmond, of Greenville, and Elmer of Belding; two sisters, Mrs. Fred Harding of
Belding, and Mrs. Carl Bliss, of Ionia. 

Mr. Harrington was a member of the Grand Rapids post American Legion.


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